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94. How The Candle Endured!

He has also narrated as follows:

My mother was very fond of reciting the Qur’an. Most of the time she recited seven parts in twenty-four hours. She did not sleep during the nights of Ramadhan month. She spent all her time in reciting the Qur’an, supplications and Prayers.

One night, only a centimeter of candle was left in the candle stand. We could have gone out and purchased more candle, but there was a curfew in the town and anyone outside at that hour was apprehended and thrown in the lock up and fined.

My mother started reciting the Qur’an in the light of that same candle; by Allah, till the end of the night, my mother continued to recite Qur’an in this way and the candle did not go out. When she concluded the Prayer, we started taking our dawn meal, but the candle continued to burn.

When the call for prayer was announced, it dimmed and gradually went out. In other words, one centimeter of candle burnt for nine hours due to the auspiciousness of my mother.